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1) Straight A's
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his mother's ghost, a former drug addict returns to his hometown seeking redemption from his family. His return is not as he expected, as his true love has become his sister-in-law.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as The Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
4) Sabrina
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
David and Linus are brothers, running a corporate empire. Linus is all work, David is all play. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus.
5) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
6) El desierto
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a post-catastrophic world. Their whole dynamic changes when Axel and Jonathan go out on an expedition in search of provisions and return to the house with a zombie that they call Pythagoras.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
10) The hunger games
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
11) Going nowhere
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Izzy's making a movie. A feminist slash environmentalist about a plant that saves the world. Incompetence, paranoia, and sexual frustration drive the crew to the brink of mutiny. Are they going to make it? Or are they all Going Nowhere?
12) Fallen
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young girl finds herself in a reform school after therapy since she was blamed for the death of a young boy. At the school she finds herself drawn to a fellow student, unaware that he is an angel, and has loved her for thousands of years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rosalie Douglas lives in a fog of heartache and denial. She has just lost her son, and her marriage to Luke is falling apart. The lives of the Douglas family are changed forever when they encounter Jed. A spark of hope for the future is rekindled within the household. But underneath, a deadly and morally corrupt triangle is taking shape.
15) Taken 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
17) Holiday affair
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mason is helping a child who'd otherwise find disappointment under the Christmas tree. The boy's war-widowed mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger.
18) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c1954
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.
19) Manmarziyaan
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Hindi
Description
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
20) The reckoning
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After being shunned by the town she was raised in, an Amish woman finds love with an affluent businessman and faces a challenge when a former love comes to see her.
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